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Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986

Former President Truman, Bess Truman, Averell Harriman, and Louis Lochner at the Overseas Press Club of America

Former President Harry S. Truman, former First Lady Bess Truman, Governor Averell Harriman, and journalist Louis Lochner visit at the Overseas Press Club Dinner. The event was held at the Sheraton Astor Hotel in New York City. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Governor Averell Harriman, Former President Truman, Bess Truman, and Louis Lochner

Left to right: New York Governor Averell Harriman, former President Harry S. Truman, former First Lady Bess Truman, and journalist Louis Lochner. The former President and First Lady are in New York, New York at the Sheraton Astor Hotel for the Overseas Press Club of America dinner. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

W. Averell Harriman and Wife During 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Exterior view with diplomat and journalist W. Averell Harriman and wife Marie posed next to a group of four children and an adult. Thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring in Uzbekistan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.